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A tale about measuring your own worth by comparing it to everyone else's. Beneath its boring facade a Northwest town hides a nasty secret, and the girls from the local high school's Christian Athletes Club are here to tell you all about it. Murder, the occult, Algebra... this is a deathly black comedy that punches as hard as your high school bully. September 4-20 Tickets: $18 |
SEPTEMBER 23 - OCTOBER 29 Tuesdays and Wednesdays Tickets: $23
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In this new and gripping adaptation, set in the present day south, we will take a poignant look at the effects of wartime on young men. After seeing war and bloodshed, Franz Woyzeck returns home to his lover and child. Unable to reintegrate into society, perform sexually, or relate to those around, he is thrust into a world of confusion and chaos. Incorporating Andrews Sisters style music throughout, this production is both timely and entertaining. |
OCTOBER 1 – Tickets $15 |
In EXCESSECRET: “¿GUESS WHAT ‘IT’S’ ABOUT?” Dr. Olga and Dr. Björn manage to do their rounds and charm their own pants off while hosting this entirely unpredictable production. While in WATCH OUT! (IT’S GO TIME!) Secret agents Olga and Björn seem to be up to their usual mischief but things take a wicked turn. |
Check out both shows WATCH OUT! (IT’S GO TIME!) EXCESSECRET: “¿GUESS WHAT ‘IT’S’ ABOUT?” |
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When the Zombie Apocalypse hits Baltimore, Derek, Matt, Kim, Nexus and Craig have a plan. Get out of town. Get beer. And always, always shoot the head. Lovingly inspired by/ripped off from Dawn of the Dead, The Evil Dead and Shaun of the Dead, Dysfunctional Theatre presents Brew of the Dead, a new black comedy, that asks the eternal question: When the Apocalypse comes, will there be beer? Tickets: $15 |
Preview: October 2 @ 8pm October 3, 4, 11, 18 & 25 @ 10:30pm UNDER St. Marks |
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Alumni Resident Clay McLeod Chapman, "the literary descendent of Edgar Allen Poe... " (Time Out NY), returns with The Pumpkin Pie Show. Rise and rejoice. Pumpkin carving party after the Halloween show. |
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This Fall |
PREVIEWS wednesday Nov 5 & Thursday Nov 6 |
An expose not for the faint of heart, VICE GIRL CONFIDENTIAL uncovers the grime and grit plaguing the seedy streets of 1950s Gotham. Only one man, D.A. Walter Slade, can stand up to vice-racket kingpin Duke Craigie—that is, if he can shake off his yen for Stella Fontaine, the madam of New York’s most infamous brothel. UNDER St. Marks Tickets: $18 |
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November 20- December 6 (no show on November 27) UNDER St. Marks |
PLUCKING FAILURES LIKE RIPE FRUIT is a collection of small works by big playwrights, all of which are about people trying, and failing, at love. Before each show, the audience will draw our performance order from a collection of more than 10 short plays, so every night is guaranteed to be a different show! Plays include Anything For You by Cathy Celesia, A Day For Surprises by John Guare, Breaking Even by Dan Dietz, 4 a.m. (Open All Night) by Bob Krakower, Miss You by David Auburn, Please Have a Seat And Someone Will Be With You Shortly by Garth Wingfield, Sure Thing by David Ives, 1-900-Desperate by Christopher Durang, Here We Are by Dorothy Parker , Request Stop by Harold Pinter, and Cold by David Mamet. |
Talk back with playwright Kristen Kosmas following the performance on Sunday December 7th. THE SCANDAL is a one-woman show about a small town gal, Pink, who has devised the perfect, poetic suicide plan. Her journey is complicated by a distant mother, a judgmental entourage, the ghost of her father and a mysterious new comer. In a world so small, everyone is hungry for a scandal.
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DECEMBER 4-20 the Red Room Tickets $18 |
December 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th and January 4th. |
“Anyone For A Threesome?” is an anthology work of three short one-act plays, showcasing the diversity of theatre as a medium. Each work focuses on a different mode of storytelling, with different questions raised and points addressed, but symbiotically attempt to present the greater range of possibilities of the art form.
The Red Room Tickets: $15 |
DIE ROTEN PUNKTE:
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ECSTASY covers the lives of four blue-collar friends living in 1979 London and the drunken frustration in their lives, namely that of Jean, who struggles to escape the confines of her life and the people in it. While ECSTASY speaks to a very specific time and place, the socio-economic despairs and frustrations facing each character make the story universal and timeless; especially on the eve of our own financial crisis.
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Everyday, SHE meditates at the dog park to try to let go of her slowly deteriorating parents and dead brother. There, she meets her therapist in the wet tongue of a Black Lab/ German Shepard standing alone by the fence. The therapist dog, who wears a red robe and smokes an intricate pipe, guides ‘She’ on missions to go to the banks of the grave of the boy that is buried, to take off her grotesque mask and hang her face on a doorknob, and to look her dad straight in the eye. This one-woman play is about putting yourself back together after everything you once knew and trusted has fallen apart. |
Celebrate Edgar Allan Poe's Bicentennial (1809-2009) with the critically acclaimed, award winning Radiotheatre in a unique event as they perform live, on stage, a year-long presentation of seventeen major works by the grand master of American horror! Included are: THE TELL TALE HEART, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, THE HOUSE OF USHER, MORELLA, THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, BERENICE, THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO, THE BLACK CAT, THE RAVEN, ANNABEL LEE, HOP FROG, THE OVAL PORTRAIT, THE PREMATURE BURIAL, THE CASE OF MR.VALDEMAR, WILLIAM WILSON, LIGEIA and THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE...all newly adapted audio works for the stage by Dan Bianchi, complete with our great cast of storytellers, special guests, original orchestral scores and a plethora of sound effects! |
Revealed is a cutting-edge burlesque show with a twist. This unique and extra-sultry night of cabaret features the sexiest, most notorious burlesque performers in New York giving you more bang for your buck than any other show in town. Revealed promises more burlesque than you've ever seen before. |
Tickets:$20 Wednesday |
Anita's Underground |
The SCI FI SCREENING ROOM: The Sci Fi Screening Room is a new monthly showcase of offbeat sci-fi videos. The film series features a variety of cult classics, bootleg favorites and TV rarities. Previous shows include Hulk Night! (an evening of incredible videos) and Kiss Night! (a Voice Choice, Time Out NY Best Bet, and featured listing in the New York Times’ Urban Eye.) |
July’s show presents a screening of 1983’s ROCK & RULE. Imagine if Ralph Bakshi had made Buckaroo Banzai and you’ve got this post-apocalyptic musical with songs by Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry and Cheap Trick. The story is set in a futuristic cartoon wasteland where rock- star humanoid-mice use music to summon an inter-dimensional Demon. The film nearly bankrupt Nelvana Studios, who were forced to give up Heavy Metal-style adult-animation and make The Care Bears cartoon instead. |
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Stand up, sketch and music. Free show, amazing lineup and $4 tallboys. Who could ask for anything more? |
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A team of highly unskilled non-academics perform improvised abridged versions of the great works of literature as chosen by the audience based on nothing more than an unabridged plot summary. Monthly Performances! Tickets: $12 |
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Pushing the envelopes of physical theatre, dance, music, and highconcept comedy, The Cody Rivers Show delivers unique showsunlike any other comedy act, past or present. Their latest new show – ‘Meanwhile Everywhere’ – presents a surreal interface of themes, characters and story lines seamlessly joined with breakneck leaps between universes where mysterious rules are always in effect. Unexpected juxtapositions disarm audience expectations and lead viewers deep into absurd realms where laughter is often the only thing that makes sense. "After seeing The Cody Rivers Show...everything else will seem less captivating and far less physically fit." April 7, 9, 10 and 11 @ UNDER St. marks |
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Caitlin and the Swan tells the story of a frustrated SAT tutor, her animal-loving friends, and their powerful attractions to the forbidden. Inspired by the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan, this play explores feminism, bestiality, and the twisted links between pain and love. APRIL 16-MAY 2 UNDER St. Marks |
The Geographical History of America
 by Gertrude Stein Adapted for the stage by Lindsey Hope Pearlman & Randi Rivera THE RED ROOM MAY 14- 23 THURS- SAT @ 9pm |
Presented by Human Group in Association with The Centrifuge
I am I because my little dog knows me... are you sure? In this new adaptation of Gertrude Stein’s humorously dizzying novel, The Geographical History of America, Human Group plays with the ways we conceive, contextualize, and perform our identities. Employing dance, music, and digital photograph, this show is a communal experience for the Facebook age. |
LIARS
Presented No Tea Productions LIARS is a collection of eight brand-new comedic plays about deceiving, falsifying, fibbing, and stretching the truth. Join us as we set fire to the pants of Hollywood agents and other sleazy hucksters, and expose cons from tofu to Santa Claus.Playwrights featured will include Jesse Jones, Jeremy Mather, Daniel McCoy, Lindsey Moore, Joe Musso, Caroline O’Hare, Matt Sears, and Jeff Sproul. |
 May 28-30, 2009 at 8pm The Red Room - $10 |
Presenting Horse Trade's own Non-Equity Ensemble! |
UNDER St. Marks |
"With the popularity of confessional websites, blog culture, and the advent of the technology age, Counting Squares Theatre examines the cause and effect of our increasingly stark interpersonal relationships.
Counting Squares asks the question: Why can’t we deal with each other and really be ourselves out in the open. Through the use of scene work, song, dance, and multimedia we expose how our inner secrets cause our outward fears." |
 Thursday - Saturday @ 7pm Sunday June 14 @ 3pm Preview Performance The Kraine Theater |
This classic comedy features two sweet old ladies… who poison lonely men as an act of charity. One of their nephews is a serial killer. Another thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt. The third just wants to marry his girl and keep his aunties safe from the Brooklyn Police Department. There’s a slew of dead bodies buried in the cellar and another in the window seat. Because murder, insanity and family are very Dysfunctional. Tickets: $18 |
In a house full of Catholic women, Rick learned that good girls don't like sex. Hear the hilarious description of how he learned otherwise while growing up and transitioning from blue-collar union worker to Shakespeare scholar and professional actor.
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THE HUNGER ARTIST “There are no limits to my ability to fast!” In this explosive performance, Franz Kafka’s strangest character comes to life and invites the audience to come and share his dark cage. Using song, dance, and circus tricks, the Human Group explores starvation, the human body, and what it means to be a performing animal. |
THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW |
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar takes place in a world of male power and dominance. The Rome of Shakespeare’s play is an arena of male competition, in which the female characters attempt to avert tragedy but find themselves powerless to do so. The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company takes on this testosterone-filled play with an entirely female cast, exploring the performance of gender and challenging preconceptions of male and female. Alisha Huber directs a cast featuring Pigeon Creek actors Heather Folkvord as Brutus, Katherine Mayberry as Cassius, and Kate Bode as Caesar. |
Always RunningWinner 2006 NYIT Award For Outstanding Performance Art ProductionToo Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is the New York Neo-Futurists , race-against-the-clock, in ever-changing attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes! 50 weekends each year, The NY Neo-Futurists perform their critically acclaimed, energetic show of original short plays in random order —a non-illusory collage of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, the visceral and experimental, embracing chance, change, and chaos. |
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